Visit our Cancer Center, where kids can learn what cancer is, how it's treated, and how to cope with this serious illness.
Click on any category below to view the articles:
Cancer Basics
- About Anemia
- Breast Cancer
- Chemotherapy
- Hodgkin's Disease
- Some Kinds of Cancer Kids Get
- What Is Cancer?
- When Cancer Keeps You Home
Treatment & Prevention
- Going to the Doctor
- Help! It's Hair Loss!
- How to Be Safe When You're in the Sun
- Nurses
- Radiation Therapy
- What Happens in the Emergency Room?
- What Happens in the Operating Room?
- What Medicines Are and What They Do
Dealing With Feelings
- Being Afraid
- Five Steps for Fighting Stress
- Going to the Hospital
- Kids Talk About: Feeling Scared
- Taking Charge of Anger
- Talking About Your Feelings
- The Story on Self-Esteem
- The Story on Stress
- Train Your Temper
- What Kids Say About: Worrying
- When Cancer Keeps You Home
- When a Friend Has Cancer
- Why Am I So Sad?
- Worry Less in 3 Steps
Diagnostic Tests
- Medical Tests and Procedures (Video Landing Page)
- Word! Biopsy
- Word! CT Scan or CAT Scan
- Word! Complete Blood Count (CBC)
- Word! Spinal Tap
- Word! Ultrasound
- Word! X-ray
How the Body Works
- Your Bones
- Your Brain & Nervous System
- Your Digestive System
- Your Endocrine System
- Your Eyes
- Your Hair
- Your Heart & Circulatory System
- Your Immune System
- Your Kidneys
- Your Liver
- Your Lungs & Respiratory System
- Your Muscles
- Your Skin
- Your Urinary System
Personal Stories
- Amanda's Hodgkin's Story
- Sweet Memories of a Grandfather: Carly's Story
- Then and Now: Shanon's Cancer Story
Q&A
- PQ: Can bras cause breast cancer?
- PQ: I have a lump on one of my testicles. What should I do?
- PQ: I have a man doctor. What do I do?
- PQ: My dad isn't around. How can I talk to my mom about guy stuff?
- PQ: My doctor is a woman. What should I do?
- PQ: My mom isn't around. How can I talk to my dad about girl stuff?
Words to Know
En español
- Afrontar la ira
- Algunos tipos de cáncer que afectan a los niños
- Biopsia
- Cinco pasos para combatir el estrés
- Colocación de una vía intravenosa (video)
- Como protegerte cuando te expones al sol
- Cáncer
- Cáncer de mama
- Domina tu genio
- El miedo
- Exámenes medicos: que se puede esperar (video)
- Hemograma completo
- Ir al hospital
- Ir al médico
- La historia del Hodgkin de Amanda
- La historia del estrés
- Obtención de un análisis de sangre (video)
- Obtención de una resonancia magnética, RM (video)
- Obtención de una tomografía computada (video)
- Punción lumbar
- Quimioterapia
- Quimioterapia
- Radiografías
- Radioterapia
- Sistema inmunológico
- Su hígado
- Tomografía computada
- Tres pasos para preocuparte menos
- Tu cerebro y sistema nervioso
- Tu corazón y sistema circulatorio
- Tu pelo
- Tu piel
- Tu sistema digestivo
- Tu sistema endocrino
- Tu sistema inmunológico
- Tu sistema urinario
- Tus huesos
- Tus músculos
- Tus ojos
- Tus pulmones y tu sistema respiratorio
- Tus riñones
- Ultrasonido
- ¿Por qué estoy tan triste?
- ¿Qué es el cáncer?
- ¿Qué occurre dentro del quirófano?
- ¿Qué sucede en el servicio de urgencias?